docs: reconcile license triad and accept DCO alongside Gitsign#18
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Three files disagreed on what license prmana ships under and what commit-provenance record contributors owe: - LICENSE: Apache-2.0. - CONTRIBUTING.md: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (a content license that forbids commercial use — completely wrong for OSS code). - .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md: "dual license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)" plus "I have signed off my commits (DCO)". LICENSE is authoritative. This commit aligns the other two on Apache-2.0 and drops the phantom MIT half of the "dual license" line. Signing: CONTRIBUTING.md required Gitsign; the PR template already asked for DCO. External contributors to Linux-ecosystem projects almost universally use DCO. Rather than turn away quality contributions over a signing-format mismatch, the signing section now accepts either Gitsign OR DCO (`git commit -s`). Gitsign remains preferred for maintainer commits; that can be enforced via branch protection on main rather than via CONTRIBUTING.md text. @Strykar's PR #14 was DCO-signed. This change reconciles the project's stated expectation with the commit-provenance form external contributors actually use. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CONTRIBUTING.md §Licensesaid CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (a non-commercial content license).LICENSEis Apache-2.0. Aligned CONTRIBUTING on Apache-2.0.Signed-off-by. Relaxed CONTRIBUTING to accept either. Gitsign stays preferred for maintainers (enforce via branch protection onmainif desired).Triggered by PR #14 (external contribution) where @Strykar used DCO, flagged the triad inconsistency, and was otherwise ready to merge.
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.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.mdchecklist item mentions Apache-2.0 only, and mentions both signing options🤖 Generated with Claude Code